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River Care Kids Clean Up the Manistee
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Sustain Our Great Lakes Awards $5.7 Million in Grants
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Some Like it Cold – Conserving Coldwater Habitat
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Good News for Manton Creek
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Upper Manistee River Restoration Project Report Released
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Manistee dam removal yields snake hibernaculum
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River Care™ Kids Clean Up at Tippy Dam
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Northwest Michigan Stream Connectivity Report Released
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Flowing Well Finale
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Upper Manistee Restoration Update at Flowing Well
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Upper Manistee Protection & Restoration Project
These ecological hot spots are threatened and degraded by impacts at the Mecum Road crossing of the North Branch and the abandoned Flowing Well Trout Farm, a 1720-acre property acquired by the State of Michigan. Through this project, CRA coordinated the replacement of the existing Mecum Road crossing with a new Timber Bridge structure and continues to restore the Flowing Well Trout Farm for fish passage and habitat improvement. |
Mecum Road Timber Bridge Completed on Manistee North Branch
Surveys from 2002-2004 showed abundant brook trout, with some exceeding 12” in length. However, in a 2008 survey, only two brook trout were caught in the reach; the habitat had dramatically changed. Mecum Road was considered the worst remaining crossing on the North Branch of the Manistee. The old structures were removed and replaced with a modern timber bridge, setting the stage for this important stretch of river to regain it's vitality and health. |
Dam Removal Resurrects Trout Stream
By Jeff Alexander, Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes CoalitionProject name: Flowing Well Trout Farm Restoration Project, Kalkaska, Mi. Description: The Flowing Well Trout Farm, built in the mid-1900s, erected 12 small dams to create fish rearing ponds. The dams, built in the North branch of the Manistee River and the Flowing Well Creek, diverted the natural flow of a trout stream, caused unnaturally high water temperatures, blocked fish passage and disrupted the natural movement of sediment and woody debris in the river. Approximate cost of project: $626,000 |
A Dam Problem
By Dustin Dwyer, The Environment ReportAll this week, we're focusing on stories about fish for our series, "Swimming Upstream." Dustin Dwyer traveled all around the Lower Peninsula for the series, and for today's story, he went to the site of a former trout farm along the headwaters of the Manistee River, near Grayling. Dustin went to learn about the complex world of dam removal: The Flowing Well trout farm was built half a century ago. Dotted along the river here are a number of little dams, each one only 4 or 5 feet high, built out of simple wood planks. But if you're a fish, this might as well be the Hoover. |
Manistee River, Michigan Named “Water To Watch” For 2011
The National Fish Habitat Action Plan (www.fishhabitat.org) has unveiled the 2011 10 “Waters to Watch” list, a collection of rivers, streams, estuaries , watershed systems and shores that will benefit from strategic conservation efforts to protect, restore or enhance their current condition. |
Dam removal planned on Upper Manistee River
By Sheri McWhirter, The Leader & KalkaskianKALKASKA – Four small dams will be removed from Kalkaska County streams in an ecological restoration project in the Manistee River watershed. The work is intended to restore the free flow of the Upper Manistee River in an area that’s packed with dams, impoundments and an old trout farm. The property became state land in 2008 through a conservation effort and now habitat improvement work is set to begin next spring. |
River Care Kids Clean Up at Tippy Dam
Over 120 elementary school children helped clean up trash along the heavily used fishing access at Tippy Dam on the Manistee River. The clean up took place on May 25 along the north and south sides of the river at the Dam. This is the eighth year for the event that is part of Wellston Elementary School’s Earth Day activities and is supported by the Conservation Resource Alliance (CRA) and the Consumers Energy Foundation. |
Big Improvements for a Small Creek
By Kimberly Balke, January 2010 CatalystIn 1867, a local citizen named John Wheeler built a dam on what came to be known as Wheeler Creek. Though there were a couple of fires at the dam site, the structure was repeatedly rebuilt over the years and has kept Wheeler Creek from freely flowing into the Manistee River ever since. In October of 2009, CRA worked with partners to remove Wheeler Creek Dam. The concrete spillway was breaking apart, the stop logs were in poor condition, and the risk of failure was looming for the 20 foot high dam. The dam removal process has not been without challenges. Over 140 years worth of accumulated sediment and debris had collected in the ponds behind the dam, and with the highway and Manistee River immediately downstream of the dam we lacked an ideal sand trap site. |